Inspirational Leadership Training - Two Day Course

About this Inspirational Leadership Training Course

This inspirational leadership training course has been created to help people learn positive leadership techniques.

This unique training will help you to develop your ability to inspire others.
This course will help you to identify and overcome the subtle barriers that can stop people’s progress.

This course will help you to replace “worry” with “confidence”:
The leadership course will develop key leadership skills: Goal focus, clear language, proper delegation, handle difficult conversations, self-motivation, and how to inspire positive mental attitude in others.

It will help you to inspire others.

If you attend this informative training course, you will learn how to improve six key leadership skills.

Please, read through the course description below and then reserve your place, today.

The course was well structured and it opened my eyes to the potential causes of failure, within both the company projects and my personal projects. It also taught me things that I will definitely apply to make myself and my team way more productive! The Trainer was very personable, and did well keeping the group engaged and the content interesting.

Inspirational Leadership Training - Two Day Course Overview

Your future relies on successful leadership.
Successful leadership is the result of consistently applying a limited number of leadership skills. This course will help you to identify the key leadership skills and integrate them into your daily habits.

The course content was very relevant, helpful, full of information, good tips and techniques. Found the course very inspiring, full of food for thought that I will definitely use at work and in life. The trainer's presentation was fantastic, very inspiring, enthusiastic, encouraging and positive. The best course I have ever attended! Thank you.

Goals are the starting point of all achievement

Remember that you are not the most important thing. Your VISION is the most important thing.

A leader’s primary purpose is to set up a vision of a compelling future. This vision will act as a motivator and a “Guiding light” that will be the basis of every subsequent action.

How to set valuable, specific and worthwhile Vision

The vision must be believable, realistic and yet optimistic and motivational

We will show you how to formulate your vision, and to distinguish a Vision from a Fantasy.

The difference between a leader and a manager

We will discuss the differences between the concept of leadership and a management.

What are the key attributes of leadership? How does leadership differ from management?

Ideally a leader should have management skills.

And a manager should have leadership skills.

The role of logic in leadership

Logic is the method of rational thought. If a leader is not logical, (becomes irrational), then that can spell disaster for the group.

Leaders need to understand the nature of logical thinking.

Logical thought is:

Methodical

Detailed

Focused upon facts, (not guesses)

Coherent, (self-consistent)

The moment the leadership violates the rational rules, then whole team is at risk.

If the leadership thinking becomes: too vague, based on guesses, incoherent, irrational, then the team’s results will suffer. (Check your history-books for examples).

A leader must be able to explain the reasons for the vision.

A leader must be able to explain a rational plan that will enable the team to achieve the vision.

Leaders tend to concern themselves with the CAN-DO portion of the job

Focus on what can be done, (not on what cannot be done)

Every situation contains two elements: Things that you CAN influence: and things that you cannot.

Leaders concern themselves with the CAN-DO portion of the job

Non-leaders tend to concern themselves with the NO-CAN-DO portion of the job

You need to identify the members of your team who are too negative, in the sense that they concentrate their conversation onto the “NO-CAN-DO portion of the job “. You need to redirect their conversation away from what they cannot do, (or won’t do) and place it onto the CAN-DO portion of the job.

We will help you to do that.

Avoid negative commands: Give only positive commands

Leadership language make use of the following fact:

People think in pictures.

Your task as a leader is to speak in ways that trigger images in the mind that are consistent with what you DO want.

A common error is to give negative commands. A negative command is a form of suggestion that causes the other person to think of what it is you don’t want. And since action follows thought they may be more likely to do what you don’t want.

An example of a negative command is “Don’t panic”.

We will help you to reformulate any negative commands into positive commands.

Inspirational Leadership Training - Day One - PM

The team is composed of various personalities, some of whom don’t get-on well

In addition, not everyone will agree with all your leadership decisions

So occasional conflict is inevitable

Your task as a leader is to identify and resolve the conflicts within the team as quickly as possible

We will teach you special methods that will help you to resolve conflicts, according to the principles of reason; (and keep them from degenerating into an emotional clash).

Here are the rules to remember:

Never attack their personality.
If you attack a person’s personality, then you will lose their loyalty. You want to keep the persons loyalty: So never attack their personality, or their motives.

Only comment on behaviours, never personality.

Comment only on behaviours - what they did or said.
NOT on any derogatory opinions of their character.

Following on from the above: Comment only on their behaviour. What they did or said. NOT of any derogatory opinions of their character.

Agree on corrective actions

Once you have pinpointed the problem behaviour, then state the corrective action. How specifically do you want the other person to change? Be very objective and specific. Be very reasonable.

We will help you to do this.

Gain commitment to improving performance

Negotiate a reasonable solution with your colleague and gain their commitment to an improved performance.

Use praise and appreciation

Use appreciation and praise as your way of encouraging adaptive changes.

We will help you to apply the principle of positive reinforcement.

Summary and action plan.

Course content was much wider than I had envisioned. Interesting and applicable to a wide audience. Excellent summary, with a very comprehensive list to refer to. The trainer's presentation was excellent, very organised, friendly and professional.

How to Work smarter not harder

Will help you apply 80/20 rule, so you get the most value from every situation.

Problem-solving and decision-making

The ultimate skill of leadership is the ability to make the right decision.

Leaders make the right decision.

Yes or No decision

Which one, what kind decision

One Problem, three causes, six solutions analyses

What is the right order of tasks

We will help you to become more decisive and to get to the right decision.

Inspirational Leadership Training - Day Two - PM

Inspiring the positive emotions

The essence of leadership is the ability to inspire a positive emotional response in the minds of others.

The essence of leadership is the ability to inspire a positive emotional response in the minds of others

How mental attitude can improve performance

A person will always be influenced by their mental attitude and feelings, (emotions). So, inspirational leaders should spend time figuring out how to positively influence the emotions of others.

Create and sustain positive attitude

The leadership must create and sustain a positive mental attitude in their own minds: Then use their own attitude to influence others.

Conversation control

Conversation control is about taking conscious control of the content of your conversation, and ensure that the lions share is optimistic, and goal orientated.

Continuous improvement

One way to keep people motivated is to embrace and apply the principle of continuous improvement.

Improvement by evolution, rather than revolution.

Evolutionary progressive change intended to improve the current situation.

Change management

In order to improve; change is necessary. Sadly, many people hate change.

Leaders need to instil an acceptance, of the need to change:

Or even better; inspire an avid desire to adapt, change and to improve upon the current levels of performance.

Personal performance planning:

How are you going to apply the important leadership lessons contained in this course?

The course content was good; interesting, participative and open to discuss personal applications of the topics covered, with good course materials. The trainer was really good, approachable and open to discussion and encouraged participation.

The Course Training Method

The training method follows this general pattern - the training is very interactive and interesting:

The trainer gives a clear explanation of the point in question with specific examples.

Then, the delegates practice by doing an exercise with each other.

The delegates practice by doing an exercise with the trainer.

All points are supported with full written notes to take away.

Delegates are asked to write down an associated action, for each point made.
(At the end of the day, we have about twenty such actions, from which the delegates choose six which are the most personally meaningful).

Note: we do not believe in placing people in any situation of embarrassment by demanding that they 'perform' in front of the whole group. So you can relax: come on this course and be at ease; ready to learn new skills!

Next Open Course Starts in 12 days, Manchester, places available Book Now >

The open training course costs only £875 +VAT per delegate. For this price we provide:

Two full days of quality training

Tea, coffee and cakes

Lunch

Full colour course notes

Written action plan

Certificate

Additional training material by means of monthly updates

Access to the Post Course Portal

Plus, 3 months free telephone coaching

To answer any on-going questions, you will also receive email and telephone support from your trainer after you have attended the course. Whilst you are implementing what you have learned we will be there to help you if you need us for advice, guidance and coaching.

Course Timings

After the course, how can you keep the training-momentum going?

We understand that it is important to keep the momentum of the training going, in the weeks after the course. The ideas and methods that you learnt during the course need to be implemented, not just for the two weeks after the course, but for all time!

In order to make that happen, we will give you continued, on-going support after the training course has finished. The support comes in the form of the Post Course Portal.

The Post Course Portal is a web page that contains a review of all the course material, plus the following:

Newsletters containing training blogs and articles, which will provide you with ongoing training and good ideas, whenever you need them.

Fun questionnaires that are designed to tease out your strengths and weaknesses and then give you ideas as to how you might improve your performance.

Decision matrices that will allow you to make decisions and prioritise tasks into the correct order.

Summary diagrams and mind maps from the course.

Conflict scripts that give you examples of how the conflict method can be used, in real life situations.

Free eBook the effective leader manager.

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In-House Training Course Pricing and Proposal

This course is also available from just £1,950 +VAT per day as a bespoke in-house group training course in the UK and worldwide.

It has been designed to provide a similar experience to our open courses, however we can tailor the content to fit your specific needs. In-House Group training costs from just £1,950 +VAT per day for up to 20 delegates (international training price varies).

This price includes:

Full days training

Full course training manual

Personal written action plans

Access to the post course portal

Three months free telephone coaching

Plus, hotel accommodation for trainer if necessary. (Premier Inn type: not the Hilton!)

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